Tag archive: Zvue

Handheld Entertainment has announced its budget-friendly, video-capable Zvue 260 portable media player is available now through Walmart.com at a price under $100—$98.76, to be exact. The Zvue 260 looks to take on budget media players like the iPod shuffle by bringing portable video beneath the magical $100 price point. The Zvue 260 sports a 2.5-inch, 320 by 240 pixel active matrix LCD display and supports video at up to 30 frames per… Read More

Handheld Entertainment isn't giving up on getting a slice of the end-of-year holiday market, announcing today that its Zvue 250 portable media player is shipping and available for purchase via Amazon.com and at selected Wal-Mart locations in the United States. The Zvue means to be a portable media player which doesn't strain the wallet: it offers a 2.5-inch 234 by 160 backlit active matrix screen and stores media on removable… Read More

HandHeld Entertainment, makers of the Zvue family of portable media players, today said they'd teamed with leading independent digital music Web site eMusic to make tunes available for their players. This music is available for download in the MP3 format. Under the terms of the deal, said HandHeld, all of the 1.2 million plus songs currently available in eMusic's online catalog can be purchased and downloaded to a Zvue player.… Read More

Handheld Entertainment, makers of the Zvue portable media player, unveiled several new devices at CES 2006. The most interesting of their announcements centered on two Zvue players, both of which sport a horizontal screen and one which has wireless capabilities. The new Zvue 400 is priced around $225 and should be available in the first quarter of this year. Features of this portable media player include the 3.5" horizontal LCD screen,… Read More

Handheld Entertainment, makers of the Zvue portable media player, today announced their device was joining the ranks of players which support Microsoft's Digital Rights Management copyright protections. This reportedly makes their players the first Windows DRM-enabled portable media players at less than $100. The company said that they made their latest version of the entry level Zvue DRM compatible by adding an internal real-time… Read More

HandHeld Entertainment, the makers of the Zvue portable media players, today announced their plans for their next generation of devices. Chief among the new features are on-board storage and support of Windows Media.   The next generation Zvues, which will be publicly unveiled at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is the first player from HandHeld Entertainment to offer on-board flash memory. Previous generations of this… Read More

Handheld Entertainment, the company that brings you the Zvue portable media player, today announced they were dropping the price of their device from $149.95 to $99.95. This comes as they expand retail distribution of the Zvue to more than 1,000 retail locations nationwide. The Zvue, which is around the size of a deck of cards, plays full color videos and audio music files which are stored on a SD or MMC memory card.  It has a… Read More